Sentences with phrase «worst oil price crash»

Less than a year ago major shale firms were saying they needed oil above $ 60 a barrel to produce more; now some say they will settle for far less in deciding whether to crank up output after the worst oil price crash in a generation.

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There was also a fair amount of bad news baked into the price of stocks at the beginning of 2016 that never materialized (a U.S. recession, Chinese yuan devaluation and crash in oil prices, for instance).

However, the fact that the average quantity of frack sand used per well has more than doubled in recent years — which has helped lower the breakeven price of U.S. shale oil — should help insulate the industry from the worst of the oil crash.